I first stumbled upon UF shortly after I discovered Usenet, around 1991 or 1992 -- I forget exactly when. It wasn't even in one of the anime groups. I was randomly looking at newsgroups (it was the new toy at college, complete with a big fat 9.6kbps UUCP link!) and UF had been crossposted to four or five places. It looked interesting, so I started reading...

As Gryphon once said in a reply to some email I sent to him and Megazone, "Heh heh heh. Hey Zoner, we got another one." :-)

There were so many in-jokes and references to things in UF that I started looking around more, and more. Eventually I got sucked into anime full-on, too. I blame the Eyrie crew for making me spend lots of money on my habit -- not that I'm complaining! :-)